Perhaps it’s a threat, or is it a promise… some folks on Twitter are trolling his grammar.
More Bill Shiney objects: other than Trump’s actual nonsense, Trump’s minions are simply recycling elements of Trump speeches on Twitter.
And in other RW humor, Nikki Haley dragged out an old joke she’s used for several years and a GOP operative decided to try to pwn the media, that’s the best The Hill can do to try to help the WH.
Outgoing U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley made an “Indian” joke about Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Thursday after the senator released the results of a DNA test to prove her Native American ancestry.
Haley delivered the keynote speech at the annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner and in it noted President Trump’s feud with Warren over her claim of having Native American ancestors.
“I get it, you wanted an Indian woman, but Elizabeth Warren failed her DNA test,” Haley joked during her monologue. “Actually, when the president found out that I was Indian-American, he asked me if I was from the same tribe as Elizabeth Warren."
Haley’s parents emigrated to the United States from Punjab, India.
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And there’s tweet hijinks while Trump was delivering perhaps the most bizarre of his recent speeches by referring to a GOP representative’s assault on a journalist as the Khashoggi murder news unfolds.
Justin Caporale responded by writing "Dear Diary..." in an attempt to mock Acosta.
“Fuck you,” Acosta wrote to Caporale, using Twitter's private direct message option.
Caporale, who resigned as the first lady's director of operations in March, then shared Acosta's message on Twitter.
He also allowed a reporter from the Daily Caller, Peter J. Hasson, to log on to his Twitter account and verify the message.
After reports began to surface of Acosta's message to Caporale, the reporter publicly apologized while stating he thought Caporale was "an old friend from the campaign days."
"Hey buddy I thought you were an old friend from the campaign days. I’m so sorry. Hope I didn’t offend you. Have a good night and take care," Acosta wrote.
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O’Keefe’s unseemly tactics have increasingly caused other conservatives, including Glenn Beck, to distance themselves from him. But the 2016 campaign cycle appears to be reinvigorating the political art form that Richard Nixon’s operative Donald Segretti infamously called “ratfucking.”
The use of deception and other subversive tactics to undermine voter choice is as old as the American republic. Thomas Jefferson enlisted surrogates to publish attacks on Alexander Hamilton, who responded with anonymous ripostes. In the eighteen-seventies, cities were infamous for using ballots printed on multi-ply tissue paper in order to multiply candidates’ votes. In 1972, Segretti published a phony letter that he claimed had been written by one of Nixon’s rivals, the Democratic Presidential candidate Edmund Muskie. The letter slurred Canadians as “Canucks,” and the resulting furor sent Muskie’s campaign into a tailspin.
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According to Jamieson, the ability to download videos from smartphones directly onto the Internet has normalized what used to be shadowy practices. “In the past, you were the uncredited hero who got the candidate elected,” she says. “Now the brazenness of the process is such that you will admit it and put it on your résumé!”
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O’Keefe promises that his covert documentary of the Hillary Clinton campaign will command attention. But on May 19th he publicly conceded defeat in the Open Society Foundations investigation. In an interview posted on Breitbart News, he confessed that he had “been forced to abandon an ambitious undercover investigation into billionaire left-wing financier George Soros.” O’Keefe acknowledged that he “forgot to hang up” the phone, but declined to be more specific about the operation, saying, “I don’t like to reveal the tactics of what we do.” He apologized to his supporters and promised that his many other investigations had not been compromised. “Unfortunately, I’m burned on this particular investigation,” he said, adding that he was “very disappointed,” because he believes that the influence of billionaires such as Soros is “the most important topic undermining democracy.” But he concluded, “If I wanted to be perfect, I would give up.” www.newyorker.com/...